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Unspeakable. [Obs.]

rived from the prehistoric Aryan language; also, pertaining to the people or nations who speak these languages; as, the Indo- European or Aryan family. The common origin of the Indo-European nations. Tylor.

The quality or state of being ineffable; ineffableness; unspeakableness.

Incapable of being expresses in words; unspeakable; unutterable; indescribable; as, the ineffable joys of heaven. Contentment with our lot . . . will diffuse ineffable contenBeattie.

The quality or state of being ineffable or unutterable; unspeakableness.

In a manner not to be expressed in words; unspeakably. Milton.

Not capable of expression or utterance in language; ineffable; unspeakable; indescribable; unutterable; as, inexpressible grief or pleasure. "Inexpressible grandeur." Blair. In orbs Of circuit inexpressible they stood. Milton.

In an inexpressible manner or degree; unspeakably; unutterably. Spectator.

e of a verbal noun. Some grammarians make two forms in English: (a) The simple form, as, speak, go, hear, before which to is commonly placed, as, to speak; to go; to hear. (b) The form of the imperfect participle, called the infinitive in -ing; as, going is as easy as standing.

sin; purity of heart; blamelessness. The silence often of pure innocence Persuades when speaking fails. Shak. Banished from man's life his happiest life, Simplicity and spotless innocence! Milton.

ce, that which is within; private thoughts and feelings. Here's none but friends; we may speak Our insides freely. Massinger.

piseth in his judgment all other folks as in regard of his value, of his cunning, of his speaking, and of his bearing. Chaucer. Can you not see or will ye not observe . . . How insolent of late he is become, How proud, how peremptory Shak.

To put in order; to form; to prepare. [Obs.] They speak to the merits of a cause, after the proctor has prepared and instructed the same for a hearing. Ayliffe.

In an intelligible manner; so as to be understood; clearly; plainly; as, to write or speak intelligibly.

re. "Intent on mischief." Milton. Be intent and solicitous to take up the meaning of the speaker. I. Watts.

he current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking. Do not interrupt me in my course. Shak.

drance; as, the author has met with many interruptions in the execution of his work; the speaker or the argument proceeds without interruption.

To utter a prolonged tone or a deep, protracted sound; to speak or recite in a measured, sonorous manner; to intonate. Pope.

practice habitually. "To inure our prompt obedience." Milton. He . . . did inure them to speak little. Sir T. North. Inured and exercised in learning. Robynson (More's Utopia). The poor, inured to drudgery and distress. Cowper.

A mode of speaking peculiar to the Irish; an Hibernicism.